[…] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]
[…] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]
[PDF file]: […] international figure not only in that field but also in weapons inspection.2 At the time of his death he was working for the Ministry of Defence ( MoD) and was about to set off on his 38th visit to Iraq, following many similar missions to Russia. Dr Kelly had become the subject of heated […]
[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The miners’ strike Interesting piece by ex New York Times reporter Joe Lauria at Consortiumnews on the 40th anniversary commemoration of the miners’ strike.1 But there are two serious omissions in it. Lauria […]
[…] Chatham House et al – of the wilfully and/or career-mindedly naive pro-American writing on the subject at present. 41 She listed as among those briefed by the MOD. See near the bottom of the list at . me, verbatim, that elections cannot be allowed to change established economic policy. In other words, that democracy […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
[PDF file]: […] on a mysterious visit to Brussels of a four-member SAS team lead by Kock….. On 2 March 1990, a fax message, with the heading “Visit of UK MoD Special Forces Staff to PRB”, announced the arrival in Brussels of the above four-member team for a supposed 19-21 March visit to PRB facilities.’ not coterminous.64 […]
[PDF file]: […] prior to 1981 and part of Team B.1 7 The 1999 conference gathered together former Ambassadors to the US, a former Chief of Defence Intelligence at the MoD, a Labour Defence Spokesman, advisors to British Aerospace and Edward Streator, the chairman of the IEDSS’ New Atlantic Initiative, who also wrote for the Council for […]
